A received wisdom in modern linguistic theories is that the relationships between sounds
and meanings are generally arbitrary. However, there is a growing body of evidence …

The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of
phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive …

In this review, I assess a variety of constraint-based formal frameworks that can treat variable
phenomena, such as well-formedness intuitions, outputs in free variation, and lexical …

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of
substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A …

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that
bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition …

Abstract Harmonic Grammar (HG) and Optimality Theory (OT) are closely related formal
frameworks for the study of language. In both, the structure of a given language is …

Phonological constraints can, in principle, be classified according to whether they are
natural (founded in principles of universal grammar (UG)) or unnatural (arbitrary, learned …

In Hungarian, stems ending in a back vowel plus one or more neutral vowels show unusual
behaviour: for such stems, the otherwise general process of vowel harmony is lexically …

Bresnan et al.(2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English
speakers' syntactic choices with 'give'-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that …